Rail cleaning and scraping device.



No. 892,172. PATENT'ED JUNE so, 1908. A. J. R. MARJENHOFP.

RAIL CLEANING AND SGRAPING DEVICE. APPLIOATIOK rmm DEO.11, 1907.

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No. 892,172. PATENTED JUNE so, 1908.

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RAIL CLEANING AND SURAPING DEVICE.

APPLICATION mum DBO. 11, 907.

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ATTOR N EY UNITED STATE SEEEN T OFFICE.

AUGUST J. R. MARJENHOFF, OF CHARLESTON, SOUTH CAROLINA.

RAIL CLEANING AND SCRAPING DEVICE.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, AUGUST J. R. h'lARJEN- HOFF, a citizen of the UnitedStates, residing at Charleston, county of Charleston, and State of SouthCarolina, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in RailCleaning and Scraping Devices, of which the following is aspecification.

My invention relates to a new and useful improvement in rail cleaningand scraping device, and has for its object to provide an exceedinglysimple and effective device of this character by means of which rails onwhich a car of any character runs may be scraped and cleaned, theinvention being exceedingly useful in winter time when snow and waterare frozen upon the tracks and endanger the passage of the car over saidrails.

My device may be easily and quickly actuated by the motorman or operatorof the car to remove any foreign surfaces or ingredients from the rails,thereby preventing the wheels of the car from sliding and insuringperfect electrical connection between therails andwheels of said car.

With these ends in view, this invention consists in the details ofconstruction and combination of elements hereinafter set forth and thenspecifically designated by the claims.

In order that those skilled in the art to which this inventionappertains may understand how to make and use the same, I will describeits construction in detail, referring by letter to the accompanyingdrawing forming a part of this specification, in which- Figure 1, is aside elevation of my improvement, showing the same upon one end of thecar. Fig. 2 is a front elevation thereof, and Fig. 3, is a sectionalview of the actuating mechanism.

In carrying out my invention as here embodied, A represents the body ofa car to which is fastened the depending brackets B by means of thebolts O, to this said depending bracket is pivoted the rocking levers Dand D at the points E and E and the said rocking levers are connected tothe rod 1) by means of the short levers G and G, the said rod beingconnected to the scraper arms F and F. To one end of the scraper armsare attached the scrapers II and H of any desired shape or form by meansof the small bolts I, the said scrapers being made to slide along on thetop of the rails at an angle to Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed December 11, 1907.

Patented June 80, 1908.

Serial No. 406,050.

prevent scrapers from catching in rail joints and for the purpose ofthrowing dirt and other matter clear of rails and they also have smallextensions adapted to lit on the inside of rail edge or in the groovesof the rails where such is necessary. The opposite end of the scraperarms are pivoted to the depending brackets J and J which are fastened tothe bottom of the car by means of the bolts K.

One end of each of the rocking levers is attached to the rod L, whichpasses through the .[loor of the car and the tubular casing M and isfastened into the sliding head N against which one end of the spring 0rests, the opposite end resting upon the floor of the car. Through thesaid rod L is fastened a pin L which extends through the L shaped slotsM, cut in opposite sides of the casing M. The cap P having an openingcut in the top thereof for the insertion of the detachable handle Q isthreaded upon the casing M.

In practice when the scraper is being used the spring 0 presses the headN upward and the rod L being fastened to the said head must also beforced upward, thus holding one end of the rocker arm up and theopposite end down, which presses the scraper upon the track through themedium of the small levers G and G and the scraper arms F and F, thusall foreign substances which are on the track will be thrown aside.

hen it is desired that the scrapers be taken out of engagement with thetracks, the detachable handle Q if pressed downward until the pins Lhave passed the full length of the L shaped slot M when the handle willbe slightly turned thus placing the pins in' the lower portion of thesaid slots M, thus will one end of the rocking levers be moved downwardand the opposite end upward until the scrapers are lifted from thetrack.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new and usefulis 1. In combination with a car, a depending bracket, a rocking lever, ascraper arm, a short lever connecting one end of the rocking lever tothe scraper arm, a second depending bracket to which is attached one endof the scraper arm, a scraper attached to the opposite end of the lastnamed member, a casing, having an L shaped slot cut in opposite sidesthereof, a cap having an opening cut therein threaded upon said casing,a sliding head, a rod attached thereto passing through the floor of thecar and attached to one end of the rocking levers, a extendingthroughnope. posite sides of s idin vheadand :fastening. same to rod, aspring p aced inside of the casing one end of which bears against thefloor of the car theother end against the sliding head-holdingitin. anupward. osition; and a detachable handle, as specifie 2. The hereindescribed combination of a" track cleaner and scraper, having a scraper'arm;one end of XVhiCh -lS attached toa'de endingzbracket; axscraper=fastenedto the oWer end of the scraper arm 'rocking levers one end-ofeach of which isattachedto-the scraper by meansuof short levers, a rodattached to the opposite end of'the rockingzlevers, a casing, a slidinhead placed therein to Which is attachedsaid' rodva: spring also Withinthe casing, as and for the purpose set forth.

Inttestimony whereof, I have hereunto af-v' fixed my signature in thepresence of two subscribing Witnesses.

AUGUST J, R. MARJENHOFF.

Witnesses-:-

H. A; STELLING, J GRoGHAN.

